Just an update for anyone bored and snowed in :D:
Chicks are a week old and the Brooder is in my upstairs office now. (Still have brooder heat plate in with them.
Upstairs temps are about 55 degrees, and I put a space heater near the brooder to boost the temp locally for them. I was considering...
I will say, they were not happy to be disturbed. Wind is gone now, about 45-50 degrees.
When I pulled the lid and the heater plate off, everyone was warm and toasty...
I have a wooden panel that covers about 1/3. I adjusted it when I saw that they were all on the other end from the heater, turns out it was because they had more of a wind block. I moved the heater and covered area to the other end, and they are now all under the heater plate, with forays out...
2 day old chicks, an Unexpected Journey.
I was not planning on getting chicks yet, but here we are. They are in a 2'x6' brooder with a premier 1 heater plate. It is going to get down into the 30's the next couple of nights, but 66 degrees this afternoon as the wind shifted from the south. My...